Shalom Lappin is a Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Gothenburg, Professor of Natural Language Processing at Queen Mary University of London and Emeritus Professor of Computational Linguistics at King's College London. His research focuses on the application of machine learning and probabilistic models to the representation and the acquisition of linguistic knowledge.

Jean-Philippe Bernardy is a researcher at the University of Gothenburg. His main research interest is in interpretable linguistic models, in particular, those built from first principles of algebra, probability and geometry.